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Eh haven't watched it. But if she's done such a character before it gives me hope for a possible anime adaptation of Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally, heh.

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Although in that case

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Envy could be considered a more of an "it" since I think Envy's true form is genderless. I think it is easy to just call Envy "he".

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Yeah, true that. I meant Envy from the first anime series there, didn't want to mention him apparently being an hermaphrodite in the manga, since it's only confirmed much later on. Well, it's not exactly a very shocking revelation, but still.

At least, I think it was confirmed, the small portion of the ruins of Xerxes inside Gluttony's stomach talked about the creation of an hermaphrodite being, which I assumed to be Envy.

Is having females voicing male roles a common thing in the world of entertainment, or is it something anime only? And why going through the trouble of doing that in the first place? Would someone be so kind as to answer me those?

Regardless, I find the Japanese seiyuus doing such a good job! Maybe it's just me 'cause of my little experience of anime, but in most cases I can hardly tell when a guy is being voiced by a girl unless I know the seiyuu's name, for example in this show, Ed and Envy. (I know I have some troubles with my ears too )

Some female seiyu have very deep (natural) voices. Cases in point: Saiga Mitsuki and Pak Romi. Saiga-san looks andro in real life, while Romi-san practises Shaolin Kempo. In the older generation, we have Ogata Megumi (Tenoh Haruka and Ikari Shinji).

Some seiyu can voice boys somewhat convincingly, but come across as slightly whiny as time goes on. Case in point: Sanae Kobayashi as Allen Walker in DGM. Seeing as how she also voiced Lucy/Nyu in Elfen Lied, her voice isn't that deep naturally. Also, for Orikasa Ai, her voice as Quatre in Gundam Wing is, without doubt, a lady's. I joke with my friend, "Why didn't any character in Wing call Quatre out on how he sounds so much like a girl?" It's almost the exact voice she used as Galatea in Claymore 10+ years later.

Note that almost all the series listed above came from Weekly Shounen Jump. Also, Gon is Naruto.

I should elaborate on Suzukaze Mayo, who voiced Kenshin. To quote Wiki:

"She was previously a Takarazuka Revue stage actress and the Top Star of Moon Troupe. Her best-known Takarazuka role was that of Oscar François de Jarjayes in the 1991 Moon Troupe production of The Rose of Versailles."

Well, clearly it's common in anime, but I was wondering about non-anime stuff...and why it's so common in anime in the first place...

Oh well, not really matters anyway, and a little off-topic i think

I'm only speaking from experience, though a number of Korean films that i've seen over the years sometimes use females for male parts, though that's mainly to do with the story at hand. Like yezhanquan said, it's a bit different when you can see a female playing a male role right infront of you.

For one point, Japanese female seiyuus seem to be very capable of voicing different kinds of roles including male roles, you guys have listed many examples above.

The main point, imo is that most of anime main characters are young boys or teen boys, so the softer voices of women work just fine ,or even better, for them, and maybe female voices can be more appealing in many aspects.

Well, in the case of Al, it surely was a smart move having a female voicing him in the Japanese version. In the dub version, they had Aaron voicing Al but his voice...died young in the movie because of some major voice crackage which was very funny. (puberty sucks ) And of course Aaron's fans won't have the chance of seeing him again in this new FMA!

The main point, imo is that most of anime main characters are young boys or teen boys, so the softer voices of women work just fine ,or even better, for them, and maybe female voices can be more appealing in many aspects.

Yeah since adults are usually doing the voices an adult male voice might not work for a lot of young male characters.

Although I've also noticed that Genki male characters also tend to be voiced by female characters even if they are older.

This now makes me wonder if they will go with a female seiyuu for Ling instead of a male seiyuu. But for some reason I do think that would be wrong for his character.

Some female seiyu have very deep (natural) voices. Cases in point: Saiga Mitsuki and Pak Romi. Saiga-san looks andro in real life, while Romi-san practises Shaolin Kempo. In the older generation, we have Ogata Megumi (Tenoh Haruka and Ikari Shinji).

Some seiyu can voice boys somewhat convincingly, but come across as slightly whiny as time goes on. Case in point: Sanae Kobayashi as Allen Walker in DGM. Seeing as how she also voiced Lucy/Nyu in Elfen Lied, her voice isn't that deep naturally. Also, for Orikasa Ai, her voice as Quatre in Gundam Wing is, without doubt, a lady's. I joke with my friend, "Why didn't any character in Wing call Quatre out on how he sounds so much like a girl?" It's almost the exact voice she used as Galatea in Claymore 10+ years later.

Since you mentioned two of Megumi Ogata's most famous characters. Have you ever noticed that Haruka's voice is more masculine then Shinji's?